Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-15
A Freight Train Das!les Into q STA.
tionaly Passenger Train-Mangled
Victims Slowly Roasted
to Death.
Nine Bodies Burned Beyond Recog.
uitiOn-At Least Thirty Peo.
pie Injured by the Dis.
aster.


s:l5 last night, broke down near Kouts
Station. The engine started ahead leavin
the train and stopped for water at Slat
Ditch. The engine got ON the "center" an,
could not get back to the train. A stool
train following. running on special time
crushed into the sleeper, telescoping tn,
sleeper and four coaches. So far fourtee,
bodies have been taken from the wreck, 6
doctor from Huntington. Indiana, bein,
the only passenger identified. The rest arr
burned beyond recognition. Twenty -flv,
or thirty are wounded. The engineer anG
fireman on the stock train were wounded
snd are not expected to live.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
special to the Evening Journal from
North Judson, Ind, says: Another Chats.
worth rarosd horror occurred on the Chi.
cogo6 Atlantic Railway this forenoon,
about sixty miles east OF Chicago near
Kouts' Station. Seventeen passengers were
killed and burned up in the wreck. and
from twenty to thirty were more or less in.
iured heavy fresh-meat train telescopsd
the evening accommodation train, the
New York express, which leaves Chicago at
7:4Op m. The accommodation, with one
baggage two coaches and one sleeper, had
d
one nile west Of Kouts, and the freight
train following crushed into the sleeper, tel
escopng and burning up the entire passen.
ger train as above stated VIM. Perry,
Auditor Of this, Stark County, and wife
and child were victims OF the terrible fire
which broke out almost Immediately after
the freight train crashed among the pas
sengers Not particle OF their bodies was
rescued from the flames. The responsible.
itv appears to rest on the engineer OF the
freight train.
FULL PARTICULARS.
KoU7s Iphiana, October 1.-THE worst
horrors of the ChatsN orth accident were
duplicated here to-day. A dozen blood
stained, smoke.begrime6 injured victims
Of railroad carelessness and blundering,
we're brought into the village station
house this evening. Nine charred corpses,
we're laid upon the station platform,
while three miles west down the
track OF the Chicago Il Atlantic
feariuly tangled debris mark the spot
where a collision seldom equalled for terri.
BILE results occurred. According to the
best estimate obtaina BILE, for only an esti-
mate was possible, fully thirty human lives
had been sacrificed outright, and half that
number of persons had suffered injuries
more or less serious. The east-bound
express hat left Chicago last night with a
great load OF passengers, had. without a
moments warning. during q temporary
wait, been smashed into from behind by q
heavily loaded fast freight
PLUNGING MADLY FORWARD
in the darkness, bent on beating all CON-
petition in hurrying dressed meat to the
markets OF the seaboard. Some part OF
machinery of the passenger engine had been
thrown out of order during the ruin from
Chicago. A trifling stop at the water tank
would make ali right, it was thought, and
the stop was accordingly made. when sud
denly out of the darkness behind came the
Aaph of headlight, a rush and rattle OF
many wheels and then . mighty crash just
as at Chatsworth. The sleeping coach now
got in it's deadly work. The massive frame
work of the sleeper was transformed into
huge catapult. Pushed mercilessly for
ward by the freight it crushed into the cars
forward, meshing their comparatively
light tim bers, making the work OF destruc-
ton complete. The wreck quickly took
fire and the sight Of shrieking victims OF
the dancing flames was one never to be Tor
gotten. To-day, on his bed OF agony at
the hetel at Knuts, the engineer OF the pas
eepger train told
THE FOLLOWING STORY:
I'VE pa ssed No. 40 at Boone Grove on
time, and started towards Kouts. No. 40
pulled ont the station less than two
minutes behind US, when they should have
waited much longer. When we were well
away from town we could see her light a
little way behind. We were not running
fast, berause the engine was on one slde:
We had broken the eccentric strap. and
were running but one pair OF wheels. nav
ing been forced to disconnect the other PAIR
Of whees, which wee running loose. vi
course the accident held our speed down
little but we had no idea the engine ri NO:
~ would have and difficulty in keeping on
our heels. The last time l looked back
there was ample room between US: we
stopped at Boone Grove tank and was
there almost minute before they struck
u.s.
PAssENGER's STATEMENTS.
In the little sitting room OF a cottage
which serves as the hotel in this town, two
Of the wounded survivors OF the accident
still remained late this afternoon. Her
man Miller, q Bohemian boy, on his way
from Dundee, Ill.,. to the old country, is
stretched on one lounge in low dark
room. His head is fearfully battered, ana
his right leg fractured. The other wounoeu
mah is Joseph McCook, BARTENDER o.
Boston, who had he not been passenger
on the fated train. would have been WEI
coined in Chicago by relatives whom ne
has not seen for years. HIS INJURIES are
Tor the most part internal ana are noS Ho
severe bnt that his recovery IS posslo'e
He was able to tell of the awful occurrence
as follows: II was in q passenger coacn "'
the
TINE OF THE ACCIDENT
which was next to the last car in the tram.
Just before midnight. / went into inc
smoker. which was just ahead OF our ca.'
and chatted for an hour and came Dack 70
the coach with a young man, VINO eao
down near me- That's the last nave
seen or expect to see OF the poor lenow.
just as had stretched myself out 10 30
asleep and almost before ! closed my eyes
there was an awful unearthly crash, "h:u'
'iod help me. l never want to near again
could feel myself thrown violently To-
ward the top OF the car, and then oe,
came insensibIe. On my way up reaH1eu
that all was confusion in the cal. tha'
canes, valises, rods OF iron ano ianpe
were in tier about me. l must have re.
gained my consciousness in very sho.
time, for when awoke all was darkness IL
The car, and horrible shrieks or
PIERCING Walls OF AGONY
almost deafened my ears. In the end u
the car furthest from me, the stove "a'
overturned, and the flames were Jnst sGaro
ing to spread with magic rapidity. Iner'
was some sort of new gas lamp in the car al,
and reservoirs reaching from one 20 Su'
other. The flames leaped up to the slde'
and in less time than / can TELL wa
burning the whole length of the car over
mead. | was wedged between two seaU
where ! could not move limb OF III!
body, and there watched the fire slowt
creep up on me- 1t was a terrible s,gn'
IN the eud of the coach near the nre
could see lady caught between seats as
vas. The fire slowly crept across the CA
ner dress caught fire and she
BURNED BEFORE NY EYES.
just acTcaa from nv seat noticed Rh0r'